Documentary · 2018
Jazz:
The Only Way of Life
Jacques Muyal’s life was inseparable from the musicians he loved. Jacques Matthey’s film follows those friendships—personal, demanding and full of music.
- Written & directed by
- Jacques Matthey
- Executive producer
- Vincent Steudler
- Production
- Pi Production
- Swiss theatrical release
- Winter 2018/19
- Television
- RTS · TV5MONDE
Synopsis
A portrait told through friendship.
From Tangier radio to European studios and jazz festivals, Jacques Muyal built his life around attention: listening closely, earning trust and helping musicians be heard on their own terms. The film centres on his friendship with Dizzy Gillespie and opens outward to an extraordinary circle of artists.
More than a professional biography, it is a reflection on loyalty, memory and the way jazz can become not simply a career, but a way of being in the world.
Appearing in the film
Voices across a life in jazz.
- Jacques Muyal
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Jimmy Heath
- Randy Weston
- Claudio Roditi
- Paquito D’Rivera
- Hervé Muyal
- Claire Muyal
The people were always part of the music.
A film about the relationships behind a lifetime of producing, preserving and sharing jazz.